A grey hand coming out of the dirt is classified as a horror/thriller film. The zombie genre was very popular over the last decade. The camera zooms in and you see the dirt slowly move and shift. "Uh oh."
Is that what the resurrection will be like? Our dead family/friends slowly emerging from the dirt?
1 Corinthians 15: 35 But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?” 36 You foolish person! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. 37 And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain. 38 But God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own body. 39 For not all flesh is the same, but there is one kind for humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish. 40 There are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the glory of the heavenly is of one kind, and the glory of the earthly is of another. 41 There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs from star in glory.
42 So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable. 43 It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. 44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. 45 Thus it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being”;[e] the last Adam became a life-giving spirit. 46 But it is not the spiritual that is first but the natural, and then the spiritual.
I love the contrasting that Paul writes in verses 42-43.
What is sown is perishable. It is sown in dishonor. It is sown in weakness. It is sown a natural body.
What is raised is imperishable. It is raised in glory. It is raised in power. It is raised a spiritual body.
(Allow me to clarify that a "spiritual body" is not the same as a "spirit." We won't be spirits being raised, but it will still be a physical body. The Amplified Bible translates this as, "it is sown a natural body [mortal, suited to earth], it is raised a spiritual body [immortal, suited to heaven]." The rest of the verse clarifies itself by saying, "If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body." He's comparing that the two are alike but different.)
The imagery here is not the gruesome bodies roaming around eating brains. Zombie films fall under horror/suspense/thriller.
What if it's another film? The camera zooms in. The dirt slowly shifts. A green spine sticks out-- but it's the spine of a plant. It pops through the dirt and raises both of its' arms. Now, it is classified as beautiful. Relaxing. Majestic.
Two weeks ago, I started my pepper seeds. I "buried" them. This week, they slowly started coming up through the dirt one by one. It is exciting! It is LIFE. Each day, I check (almost every few hours I'll stop by and visit). Each new seedling gets celebrated, photographed, documented, and I tell Rachel/Mischa/Josh so that they can also be happy with me-- all for a plant.
How great will it be on the day of Christ's return when we are resurrected! Heaven celebrates as our new bodies emerge and come to LIFE! Full of beauty, and glory! We will be given a body like that of Christ.
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